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  NCAM/Media Access Generator (MAGpie)
MAGpie 2.0.2 is a Java2 application which runs on Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP and on Mac OSX.
Funding for MAGpie 1.0 comes from the Trace Research and Development Center at the University of Wisconsin, as part of its Information Technology Access Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center which itself is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
Funding for MAGpie 2.01 comes from the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research and the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation.
ncam.wgbh.org /webaccess/magpie   (292 words)

  
 Australian Magpie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The magpie is a commonly-used emblem of sporting teams in Australia, most notably the Collingwood Football Club, the Port Adelaide Magpies Football Club and the Western Suburbs Rugby League Club.
Magpies tend not to be afraid of people, and they live in urban areas as often as in the bush, so magpies are a familiar sight to most Australians, and their melodic song is widely enjoyed.
Magpie attacks sometimes cause injuries, typically minor wounds to the scalp; this is uncommon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Magpie   (786 words)

  
 Magpie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The magpies are medium to large, often colorful and noisy passerine birds of the crow family, Corvidae.
The names 'jay', 'treepie' and 'magpie' are to a certain extent interchangeable, not reflecting any genuine genetic difference between the groups.
The Australian Magpie has the fl and white colours of a magpie, but it is not a magpie (or a corvid).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magpie   (325 words)

  
 m i l l e n n i u m | magpie
Magpie is an add-on for Firefox that allows you to quickly save media (images, videos) and other documents that you find on the internet.
Magpie also includes tools for adjusting a site's URL by incrementing/decremeting numbers in it, and for "sanitizing" links to real content by stripping off redirector script prefix/suffixes.
Magpie contains a number of useful configuration options - you can specify where you want all files to be saved, the kinds of media to save when
www.bengoodger.com /software/tabloader   (769 words)

  
 MAGPIE
Magpie 49: Edgar Broughton Band, Jacob and the angel, Brant Bjork, birth of Omnicorp, Jodorowsky's Tarot, Peanuts Tarot, The City of the Sun, Devendra in the NYTimes.
Magpie 28: "The Now Explosion," humans are wired to cooperate, new bio on Lord Buckley, IRS loophole helps the wealthy avoid taxes, Banaras, the 156 Current and the new issue of KAOS, a Florida Indian canal network circa 250AD, Peter Whitehead.
Magpie 21: The Jomo Dance, the lost Incan city with its own climate, anti-radiation pills for your future troubles, the greatest ref in the world, the state of the music industry, Nader vs. the NBA, the loneliest dolphin, Wi-Fi, what church is for, Magic of the Cup.
www.jaybabcock.com /magpie.html   (4313 words)

  
 Australian magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The bell magpie was brought to New Zealand by the Acclimatisation Societies to control pasture pests and was protected until 1951.
For most of the year magpies are not aggressive, but for four to six weeks during nesting they will often defend their territory vigorously.
People walking past may be seen as ‘invaders’ of the territory, prompting the magpies to fly low and fast over the person clacking their bills as they pass overhead.
www.nzbirds.com /birds/magpie.html   (1468 words)

  
 magpie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Magpies learn to find food for them selves when they are very young.
The beak of the magpie's skull is mostly fl.
Some bones in the magpie are basically the same as human such as the rib cage.
teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au /animals/magpie.htm   (395 words)

  
 Vincent Connare: Photography - Typography: Type Designs
Magpie is a contempary look at the history of typography with a warm and cursive flow that is reminisent of hand crafted typography.
Magpie was designed in 1999-2000 by Vincent Connare as part of the type design masters program at the University of Reading in Berkshire, England.
Magpie is scheduled for completion and release in the first quarter of 2003.
www.connare.com /type.htm   (771 words)

  
 Australian Magpie
An uncommon alternative name for the Australian Magpie is Flute Bird, which refers to its loud musical flute-like song, often performed as a duet or by groups.
Australian Magpies are common and conspicuous birds, found wherever there is a combination of trees and adjacent open areas, including parks and playing fields.
Although the Australian Magpie is generally quite tame, during the breeding season some individuals become aggressive towards any intruders, including humans, that venture too close to their nest sites.
www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/australian_magpie.htm   (291 words)

  
 Automated Genome Analysis using MAGPIE
MAGPIE was initially developed for the analysis of the archaeal Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 genome.
MAGPIE automatically maps the individual contigs, eliminates the overlapping (redundant) regions and maps sequence features into the larger context.
MAGPIE also organizes the non-redundant sequence in local databases that can be searched through a Web form.
www.visualgenomics.ca /sensencw/magpie.htm   (918 words)

  
 Plants & Animals: Australian Magpie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Sweet-voiced magpies are the fl and white minstrels of Australia.
Australian magpies are often found in relatively open gardens, and sometimes become quite tame in suburban areas.
During the nesting season between August and October, after the chicks have hatched, both male and female magpies often vigorously defend the nest by swooping and diving at potential intruders.
www.calm.wa.gov.au /plants_animals/bird_magpie.html   (319 words)

  
 Magpie - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Magpies seem to be jacks of all trades — scavengers, predators and pest-destroyers, their challenging, almost arrogant attitude has won them few friends.
With its noisy chattering, fl-and-white plumage and long tail, there is nothing else quite like the magpie in the UK.
The word magpie is a shortened form of Margaret's pie and other local names include madge, marget, miggy and maggot.
www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/m/magpie/index.asp   (213 words)

  
 Magpie-lark
The name Magpie-lark is quite misleading, as the species has no link with either the magpies or the larks.
However, the Magpie-lark is sometimes confused with the Australian Magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen.
The 'pee-o-wit' or 'pee-wee' call is frequently given as a duet, each bird raising its wings in turn, and has given rise to the colloquial name of Peewee.
www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/magpie_lark.htm   (424 words)

  
 Magpie - a tool for Semantic Web
To alleviate some of these issues, we started work on the Magpie technology that would be lightweight and provide sufficiently robust and flexible features for semantically enriched browsing.
Magpie tool aims to identify and filter out the concepts-of-interest from any webpage it is given.
Note that the trigger functionality is not enabled in the public release of the Magpie plug-in (yet).
kmi.open.ac.uk /projects/magpie/main.html   (844 words)

  
 WATCHED IT! - Magpie
The first edition of Magpie was on the 30 July 1968 and ran on ITV until 1980.
However, with Magpie there were 10 badges on offer for all sorts of different achievments.
Unlike Blue Peter's totaliser, Magpie's appeal progress was charted by a thick red and white line that ran throughout the whole of Teddington Studios.
www.minley.com /watchedit/magpie.html   (651 words)

  
 Magpie: request tracking for performance analysis
Performance problems are hard to diagnose and subtle to debug, and constructing accurate models of a system's workload is difficult, yet critical for performance prediction and capacity planning.
Magpie is a toolchain that helps to understand system behaviour by automatically extracting individual requests from a live system, and then constructing a probabilistic workload model from this data.
A Magpie event consumer (the "parser") correlates these to extract individual requests from the event stream.
research.microsoft.com /projects/magpie   (323 words)

  
 Magpie - Nostalgia Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Magpie was a carbon-copy of Blue Peter but appealed to a completely different type of kid.
The Magpie Sixpence Appeal was an annual charity fund raising exercise and during the appeal the running total was shown each program, indicated by the length of a red line running first around Studio 3, then out into the corridor and, potentially, around the entire Teddington Studio complex.
So in the 70s you were either a Magpie kid or a Blue Peter kid.
www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/kids/magpie.htm   (298 words)

  
 Australian Magpie at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Noted New Zealand poet Denis Glover wrote "quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle, the magpies say".  In contrast, young magpies screech and squawk almost continuously.
FOR a few hours yesterday, Eddie McGuire swapped his Nine CEO's hat for the president's scarf of his beloved Collingwood, hoping the costume change might bring a change of luck.
But after watching his high-flying Magpies produce their worst performance...
www.wiki.tatet.com /Australian_Magpie.html   (368 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Magpie [Explicit Lyrics]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This debut album from the Salford-based singer/songwriter is very infectious with echoes of Dylan throughout: he writes music that you don't mind having stuck in your head.
Drawing his influences from artists such as Bob Dylan and Nick Drake, the Manchester-based Fretwell has crafted an album that is both rich in sonic texture and lyrically bold in content.
The album is very biographical, featuring many lyrics that the listener can immeditately relate to and because of this I feel Fretwell deserves plenty of credit for drawing the listener in by producing music they can associate with.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006H9AEE   (1120 words)

  
 NCAM/Media Access Generator (MAGpie) 1.0
MAGpie is the ideal authoring environment for multimedia specialists, publishing companies or service providers who want to add captions, subtitles and audio descriptions to their work.
MAGpie is friendly to those who are new to multimedia, educators and even to young users.
MAGpie comes with a integrated help center, but you can also access the MAGpie help center online.
ncam.wgbh.org /webaccess/magpie/magpie1.html   (684 words)

  
 Magpie RSS - PHP RSS Parser
Magpie links page has been rebuilt, and is now driven by del.icio.us
The Magpie Blog has been revived and is the place for Magpie news and howtos.
Absolutely non-validating, as long as the RSS feed is well formed, Magpie will cheerfully parse new, and never before seen tags in your RSS feeds.
magpierss.sourceforge.net   (705 words)

  
 Research in the Laboratory for Computational Genomics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
At the most general level, MAGPIE accepts genomic sequence as input, identifies genomic features within regions of the input sequence, and constructs static logical models of molecular systems from the features encoded in the genome.
EGRET is the sister annotation system to Magpie used for eukaryotic genomes.
The TANGO (Transcriptome ANalysis of GenOmes) system for gene expression data analysis is a sister system to MAGPIE that associates dynamic gene expression data with static genome features.
genomes.rockefeller.edu /research.shtml   (228 words)

  
 Magpie Recycling Ltd - Brighton & Hove's Favourite Recycling Coop - Home
Magpie Recycling Ltd - Brighton & Hove's Favourite Recycling Coop - Home
Magpie is a workers Co-Op All workers are members
We are looking for new trustees with experience in project management or accounting to help further the aims and ambitions of The Magpie Environmental Trust.
www.magpie.coop /index.php   (197 words)

  
 Multimedia Linux PDA broadcasts FM
The Magpie is based on a 32-bit RISC-based Samsung S3C2410X processor, clocked at 203 MHz.
The Magpie includes an FM transmitter, and media player software that can broadcast mp3s and other music files to nearby stereo equipment, Unication claims.
The PDA also has a built-in WiFi radio, and a VoIP (voice-over-IP) client (screenshot), enabling the Magpie to be used as an Internet phone.
linuxdevices.com /news/NS7076948501.html   (528 words)

  
 Imperial College London | Plasma Physics
On all these facilities we investigate thermonuclear fusion processes similar to those occuring in the centre of the sun, with the aim of developing a future energy source.
The MAGPIE team has close collabarations with Sandia National Laboratories, the University of Cornell and the US Dept of Energy (DOE).
In various collaborations research of a more applied nature is being carried out on ion thrusters and on laboratory astrophysics using the MAGPIE generator.
www.imperial.ac.uk /research/plasma   (465 words)

  
 Virtual Magpie (the equivocal adventures of Megan M.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
She reminded me of something I’d forgotten — it’s so strange to say that I’d forgotten it when all I’ve done is spout off about it, but I was saying things without understanding them.
Virtual Magpie is a symbol of freedom and creativity and growth in me.
But it’s time for Virtual Magpie to be more than just my day job.
virtualmagpie.com   (1716 words)

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